Carrignavar (
) is a village in
County Cork
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, north of
Cork city
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. It lies east of
Whitechurch and west of the
R614 road, by a bridge over the Cloghnagash River. For election purposes, Carrignavar is within the
Dáil constituency of
Cork North-Central, and (for planning purposes) is designated a "key village" within the
municipal district
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Brazil
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of
Cobh
Cobh ( ,), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. With a population of around 13,000 inhabitants, Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's ...
by
Cork County Council
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.
History
A castle was built at Carrignavar by Donal or Daniel McCarthy, younger brother of the first
Viscount Muskerry
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In many countries a viscount, and its historical equivalents, was a non-hereditary, administrative or judicial ...
, of the
MacCarthy of Muskerry
The MacCarthy dynasty of Muskerry is a tacksman branch of the MacCarthy Mor dynasty, the Kings of Desmond.
Origins and advancement
The MacCarthy of Muskerry are a cadet branch of the MacCarthy Mor d ...
family.
It was said to have been the last fortress in Munster to fall to Cromwell.
His descendants (surname variously spelt McCarty or McCartie) lived there into the nineteenth century,
though, by 1840, little more than a square tower remained.
In the eighteenth century, Charles MacCarthy was a
Jacobite sympathiser and patron of
late Gaelic poetry; he and his poets converted, at least in form, from Roman Catholicism to the Anglican
Church of Ireland
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to escape the
Penal Laws.
Carrignavar House, a castellated country house, was built beside the castle ruins in the late nineteenth century.
John Sheedy bought it in the early twentieth century and later sold it to the
Sacred Heart Fathers, who opened Sacred Heart College ( ga, Coláiste an Chroí Naofa) secondary school there in 1950.
References
External links
* Census Returns for Carrignavar from the
National Archives of Ireland
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1901 Censusan
1911 CensusCarraig Na bhFear - Carrignavar Online
Towns and villages in County Cork
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